SUSE and AWS said their closer collaboration means customers of both can benefit from dual business support and more flexible payment options, with organisations only paying for the services they use and scalability across the organisation.

“Tens of thousands of enterprises around the world, spanning major industries, count on SUSE for their mission-critical computing environments, including those running SAP workloads,” said Naji Almahmoud, SUSE vice president of global alliances.

“Our commitment to those enterprise users is unwavering, and this expanded collaboration demonstrates how AWS and SUSE are continually finding ways to enhance the customer experience for business-critical applications on the cloud using SUSE Linux for SAP HANA and SAP S/4HANA."

The partnership between SUSE and AWS means businesses can save costs and make use of Reserved Instances as they increase the use of their SAP apps on AWS, the firms said.

"Our customers will receive Amazon Business support by default, providing a single point of contact. Further, the collaboration is designed to help customers deploy and scale SAP HANA workloads on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications more easily and at a more compelling price point.”